A Banana Peel is Good for Headaches: Observations from the Traditional Arts Field

Between dinner and dessert one evening, Doba G., a medical doctor in her late seventies who emigrated from the Ukraine to San Francisco in 1993, gave me a tip: Lily: […]

Raising Money from Special Events

Once upon a time, dance companies could crank out government agency applications and foundation grant proposals day in and day out, and the results could keep them afloat for decades. […]

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center: Celebrating a Half-Century of Making Dance and Community

In 1958, dance class was $2 at the studio Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson started above a liquor store on College Avenue in Berkeley. Adjusted for inflation, that means they […]

Art Meets Life: The 30th Annual Planetary Dance

At the end of the movie Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock’s character tearfully confesses that she really does want world peace. Okay, it’s a little silly—and I’m not embarrassed to admit […]

KUNST-STOFF Celebrates 10 years

You can pronounce KUNST-STOFF with a little Germanic ‘sh’ added to the stoff and a very oo-sounding kunst, and you’ll still only be half-way in the know. Part-two is its […]

IXALT Artfully Embraces the Sacred and the Secular

From its origins, dance has served as a form of worship. From Afro-Cuban Orisha dances honoring Yoruban dieties to the traditional Bharatanatyam solo in homage to the Hindu god Shiva, […]

Training With Intention

My key years of modern dance training in the 90s as an undergraduate came at the time of the highly athletic dancer. Lois Greenfield’s images of Pilobolus dancers with 6-pack […]

DOUBLE VISION; To Futurism and Back Again

Dance art and technologist duo Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings ruminate on a century-long love affair with the machine.

Dance Discourse Project #8

Dance in Pop Culture: How do YouTube and “So You Think You Can Dance” both help and hinder? Dance Discourse Project #8 delved into the popping of contemporary dance – […]

Mission & History

Dancers’ Group promotes the visibility and viability of dance. We are the primary dance service organization of the San Francisco Bay Area, home to one of the largest and most […]